[bestintxas]

A stupid series that I only watched Episode 1 for a few minutes to tell me all I needed to know.

It will go down in the dustbin of history like AlGore.

[GraceG]

I got annoyed when they started blaming Venus’s climate on CO2, if this were the case mars should be hotter than earth...

Venus is hot because of the lack of plate tectonics and lack of magnetic field which caused all the water to evaporate, and the hydrogen from the water to get stripped away by solar wind...

The only decent environmental story in the whole cosmos series was the one about the lead in the gasoline, which was actually a problem, but then they poisoned that story by trying to haphazardly equate it to the CO2 levels...

Lead is not a natural occurring substance in the air at the amounts it was when we started leading gasoline, CO2 has been around since basically forever and won’t kill a darn thing unless it is in HUGE quantities...

They also talked about earth’s climate like it was some fragile teeter totter, that if you pushed in one direction too far it would spiral out of control.... We have a surface covered by 75% water this acts a natural buffer to absorb a LOT of variations, that and they never seemed to take into the account of all the natural fires humans actually prevent that put CO2 into the air...

sloppy agenda based science...

[Alex Murphy]

Sunday night's episode thus included a lengthy segment quoting Carl Sagan from the original Cosmos series giving his famous pale blue dot monologue. Sagan called Earth a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam," and "a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark." The monologue promotes the materialistic view that "In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." But perhaps the most telling Sagan quote replayed on Sunday night cited: "the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pail light."

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” -- Psalm 14:1

[dragonblustar]

Executive producer Brannon Braga is creator of numerous Star Trek episodes. There's nothing wrong with that -- in fact I'm a big fan of his work. Yet during a talk at an International Atheist Conference in 2006, Braga described his involvement in Star Trek as creating "atheist mythology." He stated his "conviction that religion sucks, isn't science great, and how the hell can we get the other 95% of the population to come to their senses?" He even said Star Trek provides a "template for a world" where "religion has been vanquished, and reason drives our hearts" -- a future he says he "longs for."

Communists tried that in real life. It didn't work out so well.

[cusp]

The series lost me with all the global warming crap.

[Claud]

I don’t get the controversy. When Dante described his ascent into the heavens toward God, he looks back and sees how puny and insignificant the Earth is and smiles.

This was in the 1300s.

Methinks some scientist types ought to read more Christian literature.

[wattsgnu]

I had high hopes for this series, but I only made it one episode and I think 5 minutes of the next. Too much liberal/anti-religion BS for me. I remember liking the original Carl Sagan one when I was a kid.

[Dutchboy88]

Their own lives and remarks contradict their suppositions.

[Dahoser]

I turned on the first episode and there was Obama. Immediately turned it off and haven’t seen a second since.

[Dr. Thorne]

“The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”” - Psalm 14:1

[Political Junkie Too]

the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pail light.

Did Cosmos ever explain what a "pail light" is?

-PJ

[martin_fierro]

[overdog2]

Thank you for this thread... the additional information you provide in some of the subsequent posts is equally enlightening.

For those that question “God’s” involvement in the universe...

1) the odds of life happening in the universe by random chance. (1-10/236 power) http://ontherightside.wordpress.com/articles/the-odds-against-life/

2) the odds of the earth being in the right place in the right solar system, in the right place in the galaxy, the right distance from the right star, with a celestial body the right distance to provide the right tides and wind speeds to support life... (and 120 other necessary parameters 1-10/139 power) http://www.mankinds-last-hope.org/probabilityofearth.html

3) the odds of Jesus (or any one) fulfilling 300+ Old Testament prophecies in His lifetime. (1-10/157th power) http://voices.yahoo.com/what-odds-jesus-700-plus-prophecies-fulfillment-5064980.html

[Moonman62]

I wonder if he’ll mention the Axis of Evil anomaly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil#Cosmology

I’m very much pro science, but this guy is a knucklehead, which is what Carl Sagan became in his later years after abusing pot.

Sheldon Cooper was right to hate him for his role in demoting Pluto.

[Talisker]

This really is the essential message of Cosmos: religion leads into "darkness," whereas only science offers truth.

I think it's a little more complex than that. I think the message is that, "when the ETs reveal themselves and speak of God, don't believe them."

Which of course is interesting enough as a message.

But what really intrigues me is - why do they feel so compelled to signal their spin right now?

LOL

[cycjec]

wonderful, thank you.

[Bratch]

“Cosmos” epitomizes the state of the modern scientific community.

- Very light on actual science

- Very dense on propaganda and indoctrination.

It’s what happens when you surrender your soul for a political agenda.

[Ronald_Magnus]